Betty Reid Soskin retired at the age of 100 on March 31 after serving more than 15 years as a park ranger. She was also once named California Woman of the year in 1995 for her civil rights activism.
The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100. Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced. “Being a primary source in the sharing of that history – my history – and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement.